Recaps

Ye Lin and his companions escaped the Third Region’s prison, entered the Earth God Realm, and joined Yun Xuan’s expedition to a newly formed secret realm. On the Heavenly Stairway, Ye Lin claimed a mysterious blueprint and clashed with Yun Xuan as the other prodigies pursued them.

• Bao Xiaotou broke the prison formation with the group’s help, freeing the trapped powerhouses, and led Ye Lin and the others through a black hole into the Second Region.
• The East Sea Dragon Clan attacked Ye Lin’s group, but Yun Xuan intervened and allowed them to reach Sea-Suppressing City.
• Know-All explained the Earth God Realm’s regions and powers, then told the group about a secret realm forming in the Eastern Sea.
• Yun Xuan led cultivators to the newly appeared island, where he barred the sea races from entering and killed a Flood Dragon that challenged him.
• Ye Lin, Shangguan Wanyu, Luo Yao, and their companions climbed the Heavenly Stairway through its suppressive force and blood-red lightning.
• Ye Lin rushed to claim a blueprint on the steps, stored it in his Spatial Ring, and fled up the staircase when Yun Xuan attacked him.
• Yun Xuan pursued Ye Lin and unleashed Sword Qi, but Ye Lin used Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art, Thunder Sea to absorb and crush the attack.

Ye Lin entered the secret realm, gained the Purgatory Ice Flame, and killed Han Bingruo and the weakened Yun Xuan. As the Four Seas forces launched an assault on the land-dwellers, Ye Lin killed Mad Shark and the conflict spread.

• Ye Lin and Yun Xuan fought across thousands of exchanges, and Ye Lin used the realm’s trial lightning to challenge Yun Xuan before Yun Xuan departed.
• Ye Lin’s group climbed the Heavenly Stairway, fought monsters that strengthened them, and entered a void where they could absorb laws and gain knowledge.
• Ye Lin fought Han Bingruo, broke free of her freezing attack with his Beginningless True Flame, and killed her before absorbing her strange frost flame.
• Ye Lin’s flame transformed into the Purgatory Ice Flame, and Yun Xuan learned of Han Bingruo’s death as the Life-and-Death Gu weakened him.
• Yun Xuan attacked Ye Lin, but Ye Lin defeated him as the Gu’s backlash left him unable to fight, then destroyed his Primordial Spirit and inherited his Sword Dao luck.
• The Four Seas forces entered the land of Void and attacked the land-dwellers, while their kings confronted figures from the Great Wastelands.
• Mad Shark attacked Ye Lin, who drove him back with sword strikes and killed him with the Nine Heavens Profound Thunder Sword Art and Nine Luminaries Across the Sky.

Ye Lin escaped the Nine Heavens Mystic Realm with his companions, only to be trapped in Sea-Suppressing City and drawn into the conflict between the sea race and the Eight Wastelands. After Know-All led them out, they hid in the Myriad Demon Wasteland, where Ye Lin studied a Sword Dao diagram and Shangguan Wanyu uncovered dangerous ruins.

• Ye Lin refused to commit to Ao Guang’s request for help finding the Seven-Colored Treasure Lotus, while Ao Ping recruited Dantai Xingchen and ordered him to kill the land geniuses.
• Ye Lin warned his companions about the sea race’s slaughter, and Ao Guang confronted Ao Ping to secure their escape from the Nine Heavens Mystic Realm.
• Ye Lin led the survivors to the Crimson Wasteland, where a white-bearded elder summoned him and urged him to resist the sea race.
• Know-All warned Ye Lin that Sea-Suppressing City had trapped them, then led the group through a secret passage after they paid him.
• The group emerged in Green Prefecture and chose the remote Myriad Demon Wasteland for a hundred years of secluded cultivation.
• Ye Lin put Luo Yao to sleep underground and began studying a Sword Dao visualization diagram, postponing the rest of Ao Guang’s sword art.
• Shangguan Wanyu uncovered ruins beneath the desert, entered the pit, and endured blackish-purple gas as her cultivation rose.

Ye Lin searched the Northern Frontier for the Seven-Colored Lotus while nurturing the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword with the blood of demons and clans. He left the stretch having destroyed Corpse Sea City and killed the Yuan Clan’s Ninth Elder, prompting the Yuan Clan to consider sending Yuan Chu after him.

• Shangguan Wanyu was overwhelmed by demons beneath the earth and later awoke with her injuries healed and her cultivation raised to the fifth level of the Golden Immortal Realm, while Ye Lin advanced his Sword Dao comprehension.
• Ye Lin accepted Ao Guang’s request to find the Seven-Colored Lotus in the Northern Frontier within one hundred years and chose the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword for Sword Nurturing.
• Ye Lin helped Yun Xi save her grandfather, then left with the Everlasting Fruit and continued his search for the Seven-Colored Lotus.
• Ye Lin sealed Myriad Demon Mountain, slaughtered its demons to feed the Bloodthirsty Demon Sword, and razed the mountain with a single strike.
• Ye Lin destroyed Blood City and several other places while searching for the Seven-Colored Lotus, as Yun Xi returned to find her mountain burned and vowed revenge for her grandfather.
• The Blood Clan ancestor ambushed Ye Lin above Corpse Sea City with Primordial Unity Mystic Immortals and said he would ask Old Lin to act.
• Ye Lin defeated the Yuan Clan’s Ninth Elder, killed him, then split Corpse Sea City with Sword Qi and killed the Blood Clan Patriarch and the other Blood Clan members.
• The Yuan Clan elders condemned Ye Lin’s killing of their Ninth Elder and proposed sending Yuan Chu to kill him.